Child Exemptions or Child Allowances

Steven Pressman

American Journal of Economics and Sociology, 1992, vol. 51, issue 3, 257-272

Abstract: Abstract Eliminating Child exempitons and replacing them with a European style child allowance program would be an effective and costless antipoverty policy The distributional and poverty reducing effects of three potentral child allowance programs are examined These include a fixed dollar tax credit a dollar tax credit a tax credit that declines with income, and a taxable allowance of the some dollar amount for each child

Date: 1992
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